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COFFEE BIOGRAPHY
Jenaro Burbano Muñoz runs Finca Buena Vista near San Agustin in the Huila region of Colombia. This 3.5-hectare farm is home to around 9,500 coffee trees as well as cassava and bananas. The cherries are picked and left for 24 hours in the cherry. Then the pulp is removed and the coffee is put in a tank for 48 hours to ferment. After that period, it is washed and taken to dry either by parabolic drying beds or a Casa Elba, a rooftop drying structure, for about 20 days.
Pink Bourbon: Cultivated from hybridization of Red and Yellow Bourbon. It's very rare, but the producers say it is quite resistant to rust. Pink and Orange Bourbons are very difficult to produce with consistency. The recessive genes leading to the expression of these colors are easily thwarted by the presence of yellow and red genes in a given pollen grain. A carefully isolated and contained lot can do quite well and preserve the unique color and character of this variety, though this is quite hard to find.
